New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-04
EaE WIFE oF DR.. DEEMs's SON
I 70 NOW SUING FOR A DIVORCE

j. ,vp urspANp ABUSED rfER AND HIS
'"' v.wIy GOT HER sERvIoEs FOR NorhiNG
;na, habit has destroyed the dom estc felioi.y
:. n, Frank NJ. Deems and bis wife, mrs uraos -
-. and shs is suing for divorce Inc sha
Il son Of the Rev Dr. Charles g. 10, DDo% LIS Mss
Church Of the Strangers. The piantin, VIM was
1no.saton school teacher ct the time OF marrnso,
Dosn'hcr IA 1878 was the daughter of wealthy
S;nc,nnati banker who lost nearly all MS "on 49,
shro.gb the dishonesty OF an enpioye IN No, Ia
nlaint she says that tor tour years ner Sar "a
onJnct has been such to make II nnsaie ior no,
L. 9th b,m She charges that he has been
En- the babitua use of opium. morphine'
other narcotic drugs to such degrees 40 ~ h;r,
him of the use of his mental facult'es mn ~. CIR
unfit 70 attend to business or care iVr n'%so a,n
uun ~ h, treated her cruelty calling her mar
says r;nsr q 6end" devil" etc. They hVeu
ST. the Rev. DR.. Deems at No. 429 West twenty,
a ~ and at various times her husoanu s'oNou
"a shook her. grasped hor by the throat anu ao
anea 70 kin her Finally November w. io1o, sue
avs sbe was expelled fro the house oy her ltne, n
ss sbc son having previously LETT it. She has boy
oae six who IA living with the Rev DR.. Deems ono
e. tor limited divorce and the custody OF the c'iiG
Tn the answer the allegations Of cruelty and eoand
onment are denied 1t is asserted that Mrs. peeus Is
T rotrsed TO live with her husband aud tnat sue IS
oJScted to the opium habit, while he mas pe ',
,ireIv cured of it. He charges her with calling hl9
vile names declaring that she did moi love mn n M
saving TO him that for lifetime CT devotloh on MS
Sayt She would not forgive him for the past he Is
aw living on Jersey CITY Heights His age is forty
six and she is over ten years younger IN tho Court of
The case was before Judge Day IN the OouIt y.
Common Pleas Special Term, yesterday on mouon
made by Douglas Campbell i'll behalf OF Mrs. Deems
for order giving her counsel ,se s setting forth
IN detail the statements In her complaint ana lcid
ing letters which passed between her ana her
IN November o. 1885, she wiote:
FRANK Your father normod yesterday that ne haa ae
o % BIZ U %S snq ns s me-
nv support aud in substance that must provide or
mo aaSs FOR ., ssaS
SseS %S from being Of service nnpad nurse !.
sST SS ssa
In his reply the defendant said:
S@ S II, ds %
Ing years lie has never been undcr any oeEa1n 20 We
Tf hsn speaks s about getting terrible
As as was certain 1 was y eqTe s family w
pleasant home with other indaOemcnts Him sent to you o,
90 oo RdS to cone so but to even live with my wife
The following are from her reply to this letter
minister PaRs Of the a SSP
without telling her what y9n ,ns had no rGS
for this purpose sacrifice an innocent life say
40 while we have been living generous beray fol
years that he has been under no o1saOn 10 I
yonr unpaid under cOnceament OF the truth as q
he T under no Obligations to support mel
Philip Carpenter counsel for the defendant read al
ada,it by the latter denying the allegations agains
him In an affidavit by the Rev. DR.. Deems presented
in opposition to the motion, he says that fer month
before November 1886, 1t bad been talked OF IN Ill
family and in the plaintiffs hearing, that the house
would be rented through the winter. In Septembee
his son went to live with Dr. A. L. Turner at No AZ
West Slxteenth-st for treatment DR.. Turner aske'
10 give the plaintiff home with the defendant at III
house and treat them both till they should be recov
eied but she refused to so and refused to wrte en-
couraging letters TO the defendant while he was there
For nearly three years she had been an inmate OF hi
household and had drawn on bis means to create
extent than either of his daughters Her leaving IN
house in November simply the result OF thel
intention TO give up the house, which was rented
The statement that he turned her into the street an
said he would not help her false. Since sne LEI
he had sen. her IS week and is supporting the chile
The Judge reserved his decision.
The plaintiff since leaving the house OF her tath'l
in-law has been teaching in the Wilson Mission Sh
was employed there before her marriage.